CVE-2020-12845

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 27, 2020 at 10:56 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:52 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCherokee

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%

Description

Cherokee 0.4.27 to 1.2.104 is affected by a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereferences. A remote unauthenticated attacker can crash the server by sending an HTTP request to protected resources using a malformed Authorization header that is mishandled during a cherokee_buffer_add call within cherokee_validator_parse_basic or cherokee_validator_parse_digest.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

0.4.27 ≤ v ≤ 1.2.104

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (4)

x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476

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